The Walking Dead Thread

[MyLazyHand]

Found this about the cut scene when Milton is eating Andrea, they should've kept it IMO. Explains why he has his glasses on.

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why would his face be dirty seconds after turning?

[joyceface]

How come no one on the show calls them zombies?

[sstressed]

Watched part two of the season this week, wasn't blown away but I enjoyed it. What nags at me is the character of "The Governor" is so lousy. In the context of this world, his motivations don't make much sense and I don't buy into just saying he's a crazy asshole to explain any behavior. I felt like there needed to be some consistent vision or delusion there to make him a good villain

i'm always amused by people who need so much more out of something than I do. turn on tv, watch show, eat pizza, watch something else. never give it a second thought. maybe i'm shallow? his motivations?

[Winst]

why would his face be dirty seconds after turning?

Much of that "turning" stuff doesn't make much sense.

If you're really looking for some sort of an answer...some might say that all of that is some sort of an
as of yet unknown/unexplainable effect of the virus that is involved.

[Winst]

How come no one on the show calls them zombies?

I once heard this explained...I think by the creator somewhere...maybe on the Talking Dead show early on.

It has something to do with the created world in which the story takes place...and with how they don't know/understand what
is going on with everyone being infected with the virus and coming back to "sort of" life etc.
In their world...there's no history of stories/movies involving "zombies". (...which is kind of very silly.)
So they don't even have an understanding of that word..at least related to the dead rising/walking dead etc. (..which again...is kind of silly.)

So when faced with these creatures...the people in the story develop their own terms that seem to fit...."walkers".."biters"...etc. (..there's a long list of names.)

It seems really silly...because it is....but that's how it is.

Keep in mind....in the books...they never went to the CDC..so they never received any type of medical/scientific explanation about the virus from anyone
who might be in a position to know.....like they did on the TV show from that guy Dr. Jenner.



This kind of helps to explain it....but not really.
...and I heard a somewhat similar but different explanation elsewhere.
If you go to that page in the wiki you'll find the long list of names used for the "walkers" in the books and on the TV show..and maybe from
elsewhere as well...I didn't go through the whole long list of names.

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http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Zombies
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Nicknames

While the term "zombie" does exist within The Walking Dead universe, it is seldom used. In the comic book, when Rick's group discover the prison, both Rick and Tyreese discuss how it still sounds funny to use the word "zombie". Likewise, in the Telltale video game, the term is used but very rarely. "Zombie" is never used in the TV series; when interviewed, Lauren Cohan stated that Romero movie zombies never existed in the popular fiction of the TV Walking Dead universe.[4] The characters within The Walking Dead TV series and comic books come up with their own monikers and categorizations for the undead.
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[mrd160]

I guess I am in the minority but I liked the finale I like how the show is doing its own thing separate from the comic.

[You Knew!]

I guess I am in the minority but I liked the finale I like how the show is doing its own thing separate from the comic.

I'm in that minority with you. I like that it's separate, too.

[mrd160]

I'm in that minority with you. I like that it's separate, too.

I have been into the comic since day one. The thing that I loved about it is anyone can be killed or maimed at any time. Does anyone really think something like this could happen to superman, batman, or spiderman? The show follows that one simple rule...in this world anything can happen at anytime.

[Chimney Portions]

How come no one on the show calls them zombies?

Pretty much what Winst said. In Kirkman's world, there are no George Romero movies. So "zombie" still refers to the Voodoo myths only.

I think it's a smart move, myself. There's this old myth that nobody has ever called the dead "zombies" in Romero's films either. That's not true.

[Winst]

Pretty much what Winst said. In Kirkman's world, there are no George Romero movies. So "zombie" still refers to the Voodoo myths only.

I think it's a smart move, myself. There's this old myth that nobody has ever called the dead "zombies" in Romero's films either. That's not true.

Here is a little bit more from that same wiki page.
It explains what I was trying to recall from memory up above.


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http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Zombies
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Trivia

According to Robert Kirkman in Episode 2 of Talking Dead, in the world of The Walking Dead, the works of George A. Romero were never made, and thus zombies do not appear in fiction.

However, Romero has remarked that The Night of The Living Dead was "basically ripped off from a Richard Matheson novel called I Am Legend." In 1964, I Am Legend was adapted to film as The Last Man on Earth and was arguably the first zombie film ever made.
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[FlaFlaFlunkie]

I have been into the comic since day one. The thing that I loved about it is anyone can be killed or maimed at any time.

That's a problem with most American shows.

Check out the BBC's MI-5 ("Spooks"). Major characters die every season. You really don't know if your favorite spy is gonna make it out alive and that's what makes that show so god damned suspenseful.

Compare/contrast that to 24, Star Trek or any other major American show. Kiefer Sutherland goes into a building with just two dudes backing him up and opponents with machine guns. Kiefer never gets hit. The two, nameless, faceless dudes who went with him? Dead. :boring:

There's an old Star Trek joke that goes something like this: "Kirk, Spock, Bones and 'Ensign #3' beam down to the planet. Guess who's not coming back?"

[LisaGsDentures]

That's a problem with most American shows.

Check out the BBC's MI-5 ("Spooks"). Major characters die every season. You really don't know if your favorite spy is gonna make it out alive and that's what makes that show so god damned suspenseful.

Compare/contrast that to 24, Star Trek or any other major American show. Kiefer Sutherland goes into a building with just two dudes backing him up and opponents with machine guns. Kiefer never gets hit. The two, nameless, faceless dudes who went with him? Dead. :boring:

There's an old Star Trek joke that goes something like this: "Kirk, Spock, Bones and 'Ensign #3' beam down to the planet. Guess who's not coming back?"

Kiefer might not have died but most of the other major characters did. I don't think thats a great example.

[Bugs]

Whos the douche that negged me for staring this thread stating "wrong forum pal" on 3-24-13? it looks like the majority of ya'll are digging it!!!